Wang Xiaoshuai

Wang Xiaoshuai was born in Shanghai on 22 May 1966 and spent his first thirteen years in Guiyang, in Guizhou, where his parents had been sent. Having entered the high school of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, he gave up painting for the directing department of the Film Institute, then was assigned to the Fujian studio, according to Senses of Cinema. Back in Beijing in 1990 without a post, he filmed outside the studios; in April 1994 he was banned from filming along with five other filmmakers. Since then he has worked sometimes within the system, sometimes outside it.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe Days冬春的日子Wang Xiaoshuai · 1993Cinema